Parrot Cracker

Type	Pet summon
Use time	20 (Very fast)
Tooltip	Summons a Pet Parrot
Rarity
Buy	3 PC75 GC
Sell	75 GC
Research	1 required
Buff	Pet Parrot
Buff tooltip	Polly wants the cracker
Use	https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/File:Item_2.wav

“
Sure, me and the Pirate are pals, but I hate it when his parrot does his business on me. That stuff's corrosive!
— The Cyborg

This article is about the pet. For the enemy that spawns during the Pirate Invasion, see Parrot.

The Parrot Cracker is a Hardmode pet-summoning item that spawns a Pet Parrot that follows the player. If the player stays still for long enough, it will perch on a nearby solid block, staying still until the player moves away from it. The Parrot Cracker can be purchased from the Pirate for 3 PC75 GC if he is spoken to in an Ocean biome.

Trivia

The Parrot Cracker is the second most expensive item to buy, more expensive than the Clentaminator (2 PC) and Autohammer (1 PC), but is surpassed by the Companion Cube (5 PC).
- The Parrot Cracker when sold by a Pirate who is homeless or far from home will cost 5 PC62 GC50 SC. This would make it the most expensive item in the game to purchase.
The pet Parrot is similar to the Parrot enemy, which can potentially cause confusion among idle parrots during a Pirate Invasion.
The pet's buff tooltip, "Polly wants the cracker", is a reference to the phrase "Polly want a cracker", which is said to have originated in the 1883 adventure novel Treasure Island by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, or the popular slogan for the original saltine cracker by the American cookie and snack manufacturer Nabisco in 1876. However, the phrase can be verified to have been in use even before those dates.^[1]
- (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) "Wants" contains an errant apostrophe.